On Friday, 23 September 2016 7:14:15 PM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
and for logging and graphing all sorts of info about systems (disk space, memory utilisation, cpu load, network traffic etc) and the services they're running (e.g. postgres/mysql query load, VMs/containers running), munin isn't bad.
some prefer cricket or cacti or still use the ancient mrtg, but I find munin's easier to set up and write plugins for (e.g. a simple plugin I wrote was a small sh + awk script to query slurm to graph the list of running, cancelled, failed, queued, etc jobs for a HPC cluster)
I've been happily using MRTG since times when it wasn't regarded as ancient. ;) I can't imagine Munin being easier than MRTG for writing plugins, MRTG just runs a script that outputs 2 numbers. I might give Munin a go though and see if it does things better. I really should get graphing going on the LUV server. Also is there interest in a Beginners' SIG event on running Munin? That would probably go well with one on Mon. We could do Nagios on the same day if someone wants to teach that (I won't). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/